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Travel Info How many countries form the continent of australia? Travel Tips The continent is Oceania or Austrila-Asia, Austrilia is a country all by itself. Oceania consists of: Name Population Capital Australia 7,686,850 20,697,241 2.5 Canberra Christmas Island (Australia)[3] 135 474 3.5 The Settlement Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)[3] 14 632 45.1 West Island New Zealand[4] 268,680 3,908,037 14.5 Wellington Norfolk Island (Australia) 35 1,866 53.3 Kingston Melanesia[5] Fiji 18,270 856,346 46.9 Suva Indonesia[6] 499,852 4,211,532 8.4 Jakarta New Caledonia (France) 19,060 207,858 10.9 Noum茅a Papua New Guinea[7] 462,840 5,172,033 11.2 Port Moresby Solomon Islands 28,450 494,786 17.4 Honiara Vanuatu 12,200 196,178 16.1 Port Vila Micronesia Federated States of Micronesia 702 135,869 193.5 Palikir Guam (USA) 549 160,796 292.9 Hag氓t帽a Kiribati 811 96,335 118.8 Bairiki Marshall Islands 181 73,630 406.8 Majuro Nauru 21 12,329 587.1 Yaren Northern Mariana Islands (USA) 477 77,311 162.1 Saipan Palau 458 19,409 42.4 Melekeok[8] Polynesia[9] American Samoa (USA) 199 68,688 345.2 Fagatogo, Utulei[10] Cook Islands (NZ) 240 20,811 86.7 Avarua French Polynesia (France) 4,167 257,847 61.9 Papeete Niue (NZ) 260 2,134 8.2 Alofi Pitcairn Islands (UK) 5 47 10 Adamstown Samoa 2,944 178,631 60.7 Apia Tokelau (NZ) 10 1,431 143.1 鈥擺11] Tonga 748 106,137 141.9 Nuku'alofa Tuvalu 26 11,146 428.7 Vaiaku Wallis and Futuna (France)one 1, Australia One - the country of Australia. Australia IS a continent. Oceania is a REGION. The primary use of the term Oceania is to describe a macrogeographical region that lies between Asia and the Americas with the Australian continent as the major landmass and consisting of some 30,000 islands in the Pacific. The name Oceania is used because, unlike the other regional groupings, it is the ocean and adjacent seas that link the lands together. Oceania has been traditionally divided into Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia and Australasia. As with any region, however, interpretations vary; increasingly, geographers divide Oceania into Near Oceania and Remote Oceania. Most of Oceania consists of small island nations. Australia is the only continental country; by some definitions, Indonesia has land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Malaysia. Australia consists of six states, two major mainland territories, and other minor territories. The states are New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. The two major mainland territories are the Northern Territory and the Australian Capitol Territory. Australia also has several minor territories; the federal government administers a separate area within New South Wales, the Jervis Bay Territory, as a naval base and sea port for the national capitol. In addition, Australia has the following, inhabited, external territories: Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and several largely uninhabited external territories: Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Coral Sea Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands and the Australian Antartic Territory. These are excerpts from Wikipedia's entries about Oceania and Australia. Sorry Soundair, there would be NO other countries forming the continent of Australia. Australia IS the country, continent and island. Norfolk Island also requires a passport......from Australian citizens, still part of Aus! |
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